Thursday, 19 May 2011

The Roxanne Wars

Why'd ya have to make a record 'bout me ?The R-O-X-A-N-N-E

The legendary U.T.F.O. (Untouchable Force Organization) dropped "Roxanne Roxanne" as the B side to their "Hanging Out" single in 1984.Shit blew up big.Meanwhile in Queensbridge, a certain Lolita Shanté Gooden apparently overheard a conversation between Mr Magic & Marley Marl about U.T.F.O cancelling an appearance at a show they were promoting. Out of this came "Roxanne's Revenge", with the aforementioned Ms. Gooden taking on the moniker Roxanne Shanté.Shit blew up really big.Marley & Shanté's original cut was over U.T.F.O.s beat, but legal issues arose so the pair recorded a new version over one of Marley's beats.U.T.F.O. responded with the Real Roxanne (Elease Jack a.k.a. Elease the Original Roxanne), addressing U.T.F.O. rather than Shanté.However, due to a falling out with Select Records and\or U.T.F.O, Elease was replaced with Adelaida Martinez (the better known 'Real Roxanne').

Then shit got out of control.We got hit with Roxanne's brothers, Roxanne's sister, Roxanne's parents, Roxanne's girls, L'il Roxanne, Roxanne's baby, Roxanne's doctor & several claiming to be Roxanne's man.We were told about how Roxanne was actually male & fat, even Blowfly got involved (and Roxanne's parents are gonna be mad when they find out what he's been up to).Some had had more than enough by this stage and pleaded for an end to the saga (whilst contributing towards it).Then the news was sadly broken that "She Died".

The Numerous Roxannes got dissed and\or defended by a massive amount of artists over a short space of time, with a quality level ranging from bad (meaning bad) to bad (meaning good).This certainly can't be considered a complete collection of the saga, but rather a work in progress.Hopefully one day the elusive (& possibly non existent) Roxanne's grandmother, dog, milkman, e.t.c will show their faces, (Little Ice anyone ?!?), If they do you can be assured that I will keep this post updated with any new additions as & when...(Plus I just noticed that I totally forgot about getting Sonny Diesel to retrieve his LP of 'The Complete Story of Roxanne', so there will definitely be another update at some point.......)

Big respect going out to the mighty Fat Lace crew for supplying some of the tracks, to Will C for the Starrlite joint, HSPussy, Big John, plus to everybody else out there sharing hip hop love.

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